Call-on Congress Panel Discussion Part 3 Ho-Chou Tu #ConC2015
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LIN28 is a Novel Molecular Player Involved in Colorectal Cancer Development Ho-Chou Tu, Ph.D Laboratory of George Q. Daley Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School Fight Colorectal Cancer Advocacy Workshop 03/16/2015
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Transcript of Call-on Congress Panel Discussion Part 3 Ho-Chou Tu #ConC2015
LIN28 is a Novel Molecular Player
Involved in Colorectal Cancer Development
Ho-Chou Tu, Ph.D
Laboratory of George Q. Daley
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Fight Colorectal Cancer Advocacy Workshop
03/16/2015
Our Goals to Improve the Current Field
of CRC Research
1. Generate a late-stage CRC animal model
2. Identify and characterize novel molecular targets
for more specific therapeutic design
Human Colon Adenocarcinoma
http://en.wikipedia.org/
LIN28-driven Tumors are Adenocarcinoma
Resembling Human CRC
Lin28a Tumors
LIN28BTumors
LIN28
Molecular mechanisms
Interacting pathways
In vivo platform for developing new therapeutics
LIN28: Novel Onco-proteins in
Colorectal Cancer Development